N. California: Autumn 2025: Interoceptive Tracking Practice Group & Retreat

By application only. Apply here.

This is a recommended experiential pre-training for the 2-year clinical cohort beginning January 2026. It can be taken after, or in parallel with the Autonomics Foundation Seminar.

Hearth Science has been, for the past decade, synthesizing a novel Foundation Model of General Autonomics that has integrated the work and conceptualizations of nearly 100 practitioners in 25 disciplines of research and healing into a clinically accurate and highly refined model of living autonomic physiology applicable to the healing and growth realms of human thriving. In this practice group we will train a curated trans-disciplinary cohort in the art of interoceptive tracking: one of the foundational competencies in applying the autonomics model in your clinical or coaching practice. The program will include zoom meetings on a regular cadence, and is centered around a five-day deep-dive retreat, where you will learn to

• •Deepen and refine contact with grounded interoception in your own body
• •Map where you may have interoceptive deficits as a result of your own accumulation of allostatic load, and continue to unwind these accumulations
• •Learn the subtle visceral and chemical signatures of different autonomic states as they shift dynamically in your own experience
• •Develop refined familiarity with how your own body deviates from a baseline in safety and connection when responding to various stressors
• •Work on developing personal pathways for shifting autonomic states by consciously modulating inputs to your ANS in realtime

This development of autonomic fluency in your own system will experientially inform your ability to listen autonomically to the states of others. Furthermore we will focus on three distinct skillsets for client application, namely:

• •1) visual identification of attributes of all autonomic states on the autonomics mandala in others such that you can see the changing landscape of state in vivo
• •2) developing objectively accurate interoceptive resonance with these states in others so that we can feel them co-arising in our patients and clients
• •3) identifying and working at the leading-edge the continuous load pathway of autonomic outflows to help clients re-organize and re-regulate their nervous systems in the wake of experiences that prevent clients from returning to an autonomic baseline (aka allostatic load)

This practice cohort and retreat proceeds along an apprenticeship model as you might find in a classical guild structure (or more ancestral society).

WHO IS THIS PRACTICE GROUP FOR:

Integrative physicians, naturopathic physicians, psychologists, nurses, trauma therapists, addiction therapists, practitioners of mindbody medicine, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, licensed professional clinical counselors, occupational therapists, physical therapists, bodyworkers, mindfulnes teachers, embodiment teachers, wellness coaches, life coaches, executive coaches. We will consider applications from individuals across the spectrum of the healing arts, and coaching. We strongly recommend that you have some background in mindfulness and/or somatics and/or embodiment before applying. This is not a course for beginners.

Course is BY APPLICATION ONLY. Regretfully we are unable to offer scholarships for this course at this time. Apply here.

Our autonomic physiology seminar was, in brief, and I say these words with potency, an altogether grounding reorientation of my connection to Self and my Environment which manifested itself during a period of deep and painful metabolization of emotions and nervous system states which were previously unexperienced by my physical body. Not only was it meaningful for me, but it was in fact quite necessary for me in order to remain acutely conscious, observant, and attentive to the ways in which connection and safety desired to show up for me in a life context/situation which seemingly provided very little. In this way, it meant a great deal to me - and as I've always felt, known, and seen, this connected world knows the confluences of support, required growth and stretch, invitations to expansions and safeties in contraction much better than I am necessarily consciously aware. This course provided the banks and power charge to a river of insight, of revelation, and of reorientation.

Personally, it allowed me to apply grounded theoretical learning to the movement of energy within my own body and community. In turn, it contextualized the physiological requirement of containing, of holding, and of relating in a way that illuminates the beautiful symbiosis between our unconscious lives and our automated physiology. This course brought phenomenal clarity, with neurophysiological acuity and revelational attributes, the relationships between my own fields of study - restoration, creative expression, conflict dissolution and contextualization, and the general notion that in fact all of these fields are not separate at all.

-J. Ariel Guy, Counselor, Conflict Consultant, Artist & Mental Health Eductor (presently residing in Tel Aviv)

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTORS: The retreat will be led by Natureza Gabriel, Developer of Autonomics and Founder of Hearth Science. Zoom sessions will be led by faculty of Hearth Science.